Word: boastfulness
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Higher education in the U.S. is big business -- a $100 billion business, to be precise, representing 2.7% of gross national product. No other nation can boast of so many and such different institutions: 156 universities, 1,953 four-year colleges, 1,378 two-year colleges and technical schools. More than half these are defined as private schools (although nearly all get some form of state or federal funding). Collectively, they employ 793,000 faculty members -- not to mention a supernumerary army of deans and other administrative personnel -- and accommodate 14 million students. One sign of the astonishing increase in part...
...weeks ago, our publisher used this space to boast a little about the string of prizes we've collected over the past year. This week I'm borrowing ; the space to talk about an award that the publisher herself just won. Lisa Valk, the first woman ever to hold the title of publisher at TIME, has won the 1992 Matrix Award in recognition of her "outstanding career achievement" in the magazine industry. The Matrix, administered by the New York chapter of Women in Communications, is the nearest thing to an Oscar for female magazine executives (past winners include Gloria Steinem...
...legendary Tower of Babel had hired a work crew from Utah, the massive structure might actually have been completed instead of collapsing in the confusion of the workers' diverse languages. The linguistically savvy Utahans could have worked like bees in a hive. Or at least that is the boast among modern-day locals, who are using their language skills to build the economy of their home state...
...although 15 percent of my classmates couldn't boast of the feeling, the rest of us experienced the right to benefit from--or to struggle with--a choice made wholly...
...would not boast of a career in which so many tragedies and setbacks have occurred," Little, playing Nixon, said. "I would only say that it is the true leader who stands alone...having marched up this hard road and won back your confidence, I ask you once again, my fellow Americans, to make me your president...